Roping the Cowboy Billionaire - Emmy Eugene Page 0,6
go home.”
“I know that, baby,” he said. “But you can’t go ripping out IVs.” He glanced at the machines monitoring her vital signs, but he had no idea which one was connected to the IV. A moment later, three nurses entered the room.
Terrance led them, and he said, “We’ve got an alarm going off in here.” He scanned the situation quickly and took Blaine’s place at Tam’s side.
“It was bothering me,” Tam said, not an ounce of apology in her voice. “When is the doctor going to be here? I’m fine, and I want to go home.”
Blaine actually liked her spunk, though sometimes her sass could be a little much. She needed to learn that she sometimes could get more with honey than vinegar. He said nothing, though, because he really wanted to stay with her tonight. If he argued with her, she’d call her sister.
Cara lived in nearby Lexington, just on the other side of town. While Dreamsville ran along the rolling hills north of the city, Borderville hugged the southern side. It was still only a half an hour drive Cara could make easily.
He should probably offer to call her sister, and then he needed to call Spur and Cayden. They could get all the information to Duke about the breeding. He should call his mother too, because Blaine knew not many of her sons went out to visit her—Spur was really the only one who made any effort to do that. He went from time to time, but Blaine called her a lot. At least five times a week.
His thoughts lingered on his parents and the lecture Spur had given the brothers a little over a week ago.
They need us, Spur had said. We owe everything to them. So whatever it is keeping you from going to see your own mother when she lives five minutes down the road, get over it. Figure it out. Make peace with it—and then go make peace with her.
His eyes had blazed like the depths of the ocean—unrelenting and absolutely lethal. All of the brothers had hung their heads and murmured their assent. Blaine was still trying to figure out how to show up at his mother’s doorstep and tell her all of the things that sat between them.
He knew the biggest one: Alexandra Alloy.
She came from a family of Southern socialites, and that meant she’d been perfect for one of the Chappells. His mother had paired Blaine with Alex for a fundraising dinner they’d hosted at Bluegrass Ranch, and the rest was history.
They’d started dating. Blaine had fallen hopelessly in love with her. He’d thought she was hopelessly in love with him. Then he’d learned she’d been stepping out on him with other men.
Even then, he hadn’t broken up with her. That had taken an extreme amount of courage, and Blaine had taken almost a month to store up enough to be able to do it.
His mother had been livid. Absolutely irate, and she still didn’t know the real reason Blaine had called off the wedding and asked for his very expensive diamond ring back.
Alex hadn’t given it to him, though. He hadn’t fought her for it, and as far as he knew, she still had it. More likely, though, she’d sold it for as much as she could get. Her family might have money, but Alex was the type of woman who would never have enough.
He blinked as another man came into the room, making the small space very crowded. Blaine shifted back over to the chair he’d been sitting in earlier and picked up the bag with Tam’s clothes in it.
“I’m Doctor Millstone,” he said, extending his hand to Tam. She took it and shook it, all with that blood smeared on her arm. “I understand you’re ready to go.” He took the clipboard from Terrance, who cocked his eyebrows at Tam.
She had the decency to look somewhat ashamed as she dabbed at her wrist again.
“Your vitals do look good,” Dr. Millstone said. “Look here.” He held up a light and shone it in Tam’s eyes. “Good response. I don’t think you have a concussion, Miss Lennox.” He looked in her ears and then listened to her heart.
“If she starts to act strange, or sleeps too long, she needs to come back in.” He spoke to Blaine as he wore his stethoscope.
“You got it,” Blaine said, though he thought it would take an act of God to get Tam back in this hospital.
“Throwing up, disorientation, dizziness. Vertigo.” The